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by Strom 7y ago
All the money paid for compendiums is for services provided by Valve. Valve also pays all the taxes that come with this fact, e.g. VAT. Yes they promise to give 25% of the revenue to prize pools and thus far have done so, but from a legal s
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by Strom 7y ago
This feels like another sour grapes article by someone that wants Valve to focus on their favorite games instead. Dota 2 is Steam's most played game [1] and has been so for most of the last decade. I have spent thousands of hours playi
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by Strom 7y ago
Eliminating dead time is definitely part of it. However if a thinking based worker doesn't feel like working, it doesn't matter if they're sitting at an office. There's no way to verify whether they're thinking abou
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by Strom 7y ago
You could read it as kids being the next generation, young adults being current generation, and helicopter parenting happening en masse in places other than Estonia. As an Estonian currently living in Demark, the contrast is very stark. Kid
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by Strom 7y ago
> The problem is fear of crime. I imagine most pickpocketing is done due to lack of funds. Not having to buy a transport ticket will leave these people with additional funds. If anything, I would guess this kind of welfare would reduce
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by Strom 7y ago
> But you should not make the mistake to assume that what works in your city, will work in general Sure, I expect it to be harder in places like the US that have a lot of stigma around welfare. However on that note, Estonia isn't
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by Strom 7y ago
> The buses are not on time. As a fellow long-time Tallinn transport user, I can say that this statement can be both true and false. It's true in the strictest sense that yes buses sometimes don't come exactly at the schedule
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by Strom 7y ago
In Tallinn's case this doesn't seem to be true. What's more, having lived in Tallinn for decades, I can say that the poorest of people have been always riding for free (illegally) - it's either worth the risk of having t
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by Strom 7y ago
> Rust is designed to interoperate well with C++, which is useful within Firefox. Mild nitpick, but from my understanding Rust interoperates well with C but is quite a pain to interoperate with C++. At least calling C++ libraries from
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by Strom 7y ago
> But Go, D, Julia etc. only repackaged existing knowledge... Sure but you could also say that Google (the search engine) only repackages existing knowledge. Not much different from that famous HN comment [1] which says yould could use
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by Strom 7y ago
That pair is apparently pretty popular in stock images. I saw them just the other day in a local newspaper. [1] -- [1] https://sobranna.postimees.ee/4460337/kolm-sodiaagimarki-kes...
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by Strom 7y ago
Cryptocurrency mining hardware probably fits it. Not that low volume is preferred, but better performance per watt efficiency is definitely worth high $.
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by Strom 8y ago
Google Datastore [1] works the same way. I imagine it's because indexes can be configured per row. So for example if you have a boolean value and only ever query for it to be true then you might set the index on only if it's true.
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by Strom 8y ago
Paying with a card may cut down the fees for the business, but it won't cut down the amount that the end user has to pay.
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by Strom 8y ago
The fee is paid by businesses, not the end-user customers who use PayPal. Thus it doesn't even enter the equation when users choose PayPal. I personally like PayPal because then I only have to update my card info in one place as oppose
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by Strom 8y ago
That's a nice thought but doesn't balance well with the $1 trillion debt to China that US themselves have. Almost as if the US doesn't want other countries to prosper using Chinese money. Goes well with the America First sl
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by Strom 8y ago
It would be nice if they would release it. However GPL doesn't require them to do so. [1] They only need to give the source to the people whom they also give the binaries. -- [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq
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by Strom 8y ago
They're not the same. “But what’s new with Quake II RTX compared to Q2VKPT?”, you ask. A lot. We’ve introduced real-time, controllable time of day lighting, with accurate sunlight and indirect illumination; refraction on water and gla
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by Strom 8y ago
That's the source for Q2VKPT. I wonder if the source for Quake II RTX will also be released, which is the main target of discussion in this nVidia article and builds upon Q2VKPT.
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by Strom 8y ago
There's one from 2017, but it's probably not too accurate for things like VSCode anymore. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13933128
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by Strom 8y ago
I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks! Yeah my original plan was to use B2 as storage and build my own caching system on Hetzner dedicated machines, as you suggested. Excess traffic was very reasonably priced at Hetzner a
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by Strom 8y ago
Thanks for your insight! I've been thinking of building a data heavy service myself and have been considering using Cloudflare. Your comment is very valuable. Now when you say that you still use Cloudflare & also that you used over
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by Strom 8y ago
Oh wow, they added that back. Bummer. It used to be SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING . [1] Then with the May 25, 2018 update to the terms [2] they removed that limitation. It has a section 2.7 Acceptable Use but no 2.8. Then th
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by Strom 8y ago
Certainly and nobody is being forced to learn languages in Estonia, as being an Estonian citizen isn't a requirement to live in Estonia. What's more, citizenships often come with language requirements when we're talking natur
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by Strom 8y ago
90% of Estonian households have access to the internet. [1] The percent is still increasing. On top of that, it's possible to request the government to send an official to your home if you wish to cast a paper vote from home. -- [1] h
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by Strom 8y ago
That's some nice Russian propaganda you have there. With some pretty serious factual mistakes. It claims that non-citizens can't vote in local government elections, but this is false. Citizenship isn't a requirement to vote i
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by Strom 8y ago
Vote results are always really close to pre-election poll results. You can't really manipulate the results too much unless you somehow prohibit polling.
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by Strom 8y ago
To add some anecdotal info, those numbers are much more closer to my own personal experience. I've been experimenting with various dosages, with regular blood tests by a doctor, for a few years now. Currently I've setteled at 4000
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by Strom 8y ago
A classic move. Do you have any sources to link for this? I'm interested in reading more about them reporting the journalist.
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by Strom 8y ago
> I know one entrepreneur building an app who's too focused on the security of his app. Unless the fundamental offering of your app is security, you don't need to be concerned about that until you have some actual users to sec

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